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Post your opinions on the Bard's worst (imho)
>>7619572
One of his best, honestly. Great and entertaining when taken on its own, really moving as the capstone to Shakespeare's career.
What don't you like about it?
>>7619894
it was racist.
>>7619903
Race doesn't exist
What's your favorite story from your childhood, /lit/?
Pic related is mine, I enjoy it to this day.
"To die will be an awfully big adventure" ;-;
>>7619548
Ender's Game and the adventures of Drizzt Do'Urden were my gotos from 8-11.
Now that I am in my 30s I went back to them, and they have not aged well :/. Would not encourage my kids to read forgotten realms shit
>>7619548
Instead of books I was raised on Disney adaptations. You know, Tarzan, Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland, etc.
I picked this up at my local bookstore for $5. Did I fuck up? Is the P&V translation of the M&M bad?
It makes chuckle how PV always have their names on the front.
>>7619532
it's up to you whether or not you 'fucked up'. You may take away something that will forever change your life, you may not. Do the best with it now that it's yours and see where it takes you.
Anyone else have a hard time finding their 'style' ? I am really good at writing expository papers but when it comes to creative narrative, I have a hard time finding my own voice. Any advice?
>>7619523
Read. Find stories you like, and you'll notice you're style incorporates some of the writer's from what you've read. It also helps to read poetry or songs. I read the lyrics to Billy Joel's "Piano Man", and I found the part where he says "as the smile ran away from his face" to stick with me. I then began using terms like this more often.
In other words: picking up on a style can help you create your own.
>>7619898
Also, forgot mention to ask others--with high-quality taste, of course--if you have a style, or the starting of one.
can one of you explain Judith Butler to me and what she means by performativity?
her idea of performativity is that we inhabit our given roles the same way an actor would inhabit a role on the stage, something pre-ordained and not written or decided by ourselves but rather older humans
>>7619522
my gf
How long did it take you all to read the Bible from back to front?
I was going to try and read one book a day but it isn't that easy
>the apocrypha too
>>7619508
It was so bad I stopped after half a chapter. How's this book still in print? It's beyond me.
>>7619515
It gets a bit slow round the middle of genesis but it wasn't unbearable
I read it in church
hey lit anyone read this? I know Gaddis is big around here. I've got The Recognitions but can't find the time to give it my full attention since I'm at college. I'm interested in Agape Agape, I know i's a confessional (maybe in the style of By Night in Chile? that's what drew me to it), and I was wondering if it could be read anytime or if a knowledge of Gaddis' other works make it much more enjoyable.
Additionally, feel free to rec any other confessional/final words books.
>>7619489
Just read it, man. JR is great, you should read that also.
>>7619489
You sound too dull to understand it nor fully appreciate Gaddis' most difficult work.
This year marks 2400 years since the birth of our Philosopher. We should celebrate this with an appropriate thread.
Have you accepted Aristotle as the ultimate philosopher yet, /lit/? Discuss.
Plato is the greato.
>>7619459
Funny I seem to recall there being other before him.
And on top of that Descartes was born some where in the last millenium.
>>7619512
>mysticism instead of rigorous method and analysis of previous thinkers
Not even once.
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Sorry for the shit thread.
I'm trying to find a Freudian, Jungian, or possibly Lacanian term that means the following:
>when you are aware of something's existence and accept it as fact, but have not actually fully realized it as a reality in your mind.
So an example would be us being aware that the NSA collects information on us, but not really altering our behavior in accordance with that knowledge because, while we accept it as a reality, we do not feel tangible effects of it and it is therefore not entirely "real"...
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what's wrong with "abstract"
cognitive dissonance, but that's not freud or jung's word
metanoia in jung is a similar idea (though james uses the same term, it doesn't have the same meaning)
freud would probably call it denial and classify it by the reaction to the repression (a reaction formation in your example would mean the persons convince themselves to help the NSA collect information more easily to disprove what they acknowledge subconsciously as a threat)
>>7619369
No, it wasn't cognitive dissonance. It's not that the person holds contradictory views, but that they fail to act in accordance with their knowledge because they lack immediate evidence. This lack of evidence means that the information only exists to the individual as superficial knowledge and not a reality in a concrete sense.
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What did you think of His Dark Materials?
Looks like young adult shit
Thinly disguised satanistic propaganda.
>>7619262
had an actual crush on lyra as a kid
was I the only one?
other than that I think Peter Hitchens hit the nail on the head
Wanted to get some /lit/ opinions on Bukowski. I sort of disregarded Bukowski after reading Post Office (which was fine but felt a bit gimmicky) and seeing so many of his quotes as sort of "anti-motivational" memes on Facebook walls.
However, I thought Ham on Rye was great and really gave a lot more substance to the Chinaski character, meanwhile showcasing Bukowski's ability as a writer beyond "AW FUCK I'M LATE FOR WORK SUCK MY DICK BABY."
Basically, should I bother with Factotum or Women?
Post Office is fucking awful, Bukowksi sucks dick.
>>7619288
Excellent discussion! What didn't you like about it? I felt like it's the sort of story that's often imitated by your psuedo-beatnik creative writing majors. That said, it was definitely enjoyable at times.
>>7619231
He's my favorite author. I especially love Post Office because of the humor & its relentless dedication to detailing the hellish life of the working man. I have a lot of his poetry books too. Hell, Bukowski even inspired me to become a writer.
www.jasonkessler.net
Gustav Meyrink threande
did you read his works? is it spoopy/mystical?
>>7619123
I've read The Golem. It is indeed a bit spoopy/mystical.
>>7619134
thank you mr Golem
>>7619123
The Golem and numerous short stories. He's my go-to mystical-Jewish-strange-person.
Don't worry, friends, no spoilers.
Well, I'm basically enjoying it. It's a good book. It's one of those huge books that has a lot of scope, even if most of its set in a single year. Good characters that represent points of view, good ideas. It's not amazing, though. I don't know if things get better in the second half, but I don't know WHY this was paid $2 million for. Or, why it took 10 years to write. If we're talking expansive novels, and things considered by some to be the great American novel, look at Underworld (which has...
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I don't think it's Great American Novel great, but it's definitely one of the better novels of the past five years. In twenty years it'll probably be considered a classic.
>>7619413
who is this gam clam?
>>7619448
No one knows
http://m.imgur.com/a/GI4KS
Guys, what's so great about FH's dune? I finished book 1 (1st act of the first book) and most of the stuff felt seriously forced.
It didn't feel like the characters were doing great things, it felt like they were doing normal things and explaining to the reader how great the they were.
Also kind of a bummer that they resolted to a lot of clichés,like when the harkonnen task some dudes to kill paul and his mom and instead of just doing it they come up with some over the top way that gives our heroes plenty of room to scape
Paul also feels invincible,...
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>what's so great about it?
Who told you it was great? It's relatively good for sci-fi, but that's a bit like being the tallest dwarf in the room. Having said that, the positive features are the setting and the ideas.
>what will he learn in his journey if he's already pretty good?
Sounds like you're reading the book as if it's a vidya game. Paul's story doesn't end by him reaching level 20 and one-shotting a sandworm (although you need to read Dune Messiah to actually...
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I enjoyed it when I was 14
>>7619076
it's vastly overrated, even if you just look at it in the context of science fiction
What am I reading?
my reply
Emily Dickinson, please.
What are you doing in a picture? You are dead, RIP, please.
The Brain within its groove
Runs evenly and true
But let a Splinter swerve
'Twere easier for you
To put a Current back
When Floods have slit the hills
And Scooped a Turnpike for Themselves
And Trodden out the Mills
That's the only poem i've got memories, except for the punctuation and capitalisation.
